Atomizing gasket for internal-combustion engines



Marr. 2(0), 1923, v 31,449,256

G. BAnLEY, JR I ATOMIZING GASKET FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGIES Filed June 20, 1922 U27, @Het new 5' Patented Mar. Ztl), l923.

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GlEURGE BAILEY, JR., 01E MARTEL, OlBlllU.

/ `Application led June 270,

BAILEY, Jr.,

for Internal-Combustion Engines, of which the following is a specification.

VThis invention "relates to an improved atomizing gasket for internal combustion engines and seeks, as one of its principal objects, to provide a device of this character which may be interposed between an engine carbureter and the vmanifold of the engine to break up any liquid particles in the fuel mixture as it flows from the carbureter to the engine cylinders.

The invention has as a further object to provide a device which, while embodying an efficient atomizer, will also serve as an equally efficient gasket at the joint between `the carbureter and the intake manifold.

A further object of the invention is to i provide a gasket employing spaced mixing screens adapted to vibrate under pulsation of the engine so that the screens will have an individual movement tendingto break up the fuel mixture and wherein the screens will be held spaced apart throughout their entire area to `thus eliminate the strain and premature breakage which would be otherwise occasioned by rigidly joining the margins of the screens.

A still further object is to provide a gasket wherein the margins of the screens will be yieldably supported by the spacer therebetween and wherein said spacer will impart yieldability to the gasket when subera'bly, the plates 13 and 16 of the gasket jected to attening pressure.

Andthe invention has as a still further object to provide a gasket wherein the spacer as well as the margins of the screens will be enclosed by a protecting sheath of metal forming the body of the gasket and wherein the partsof the sheath may be readily assembled and secured together about the screens.v Other and incidental objects will hereinafter.

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Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved gasket, partly broken away, and i Figure 2 is a vertical section view on the line 2 2 of lFiguregl, looking in the direction of the arrows.l A

i appear reaa. serial ira. 569,592.1.

lln carrying the invention into effect, ll employ companion screens 10 preferably formed of copper wire gauze and positioned between the screens is aspacer 11 shaped to conform to the contour of the screens. This spacer is provided with a central opening 12 and is preferably formed of asbestos to thus provide a yieldable packing sheet between the margins Vof the screens. Securing the screens together is a conning sheath therefor forming the body of the gasket. This sheath includes a side plate 13 `lying flat against one of the screens and formed at its margin with a channel 14 from which extends a flange 15. Lying at against the other of the screens is a side plate 16 held beneath the Bange 15, this flange being bent over against the plate 16 for clamping the margins of the screens between the plates and, as shown in Figure 1,7)being slit at spaced points so as to facilitate the bending thereof. The plates may thus be readily assembled about the screens'and formed in the platesare openings 17 registering with the opening 12 of the spacer 11 while near their ends, the plates as well as the spacer, are formed with registering openings 18. ln this connection it is to be noted that the plates of the sheath conform to the contour of the spacer while the sheath or gasket body is shaped to fit between the confronting Hanges of a conventional carbureter and engine intake manifold. When the gasket is thus positioned, the openings 18 will register with the bolt openings of said flanges so that the usual bolts may be arranged to extend through the ianges and through the gasket for securing the parts together. Prefsheath are of copper. As will be understood in View of the foregoing, when the gasket is clamped between a. carbureter and manifold, the spacer 11 will yield under the clamping pressure brought to bear upon the gasket so that they gasket'will thus rovide a sealed joint while the screens 10 wlll extend across the registering passages of the carbureter and manifold. Thus, these screens will serve to atomize any liquid particles in the fuel'mixture as it Hows from the carbureter to the engine cylinders and in being spaced apart, will tend toset vup currents and cross currents of the mixture acting to homogenize the mixture. Notwithstanding the fact that the gasket will, in use, be clamped in position, the spacer 11 will, nevertheless, y1eldably support the screens at their margins so that the screens will thus be mounted to vibrate under pulsation of the engine. rThis individual lvibration of the screens will, as will be at once appreciated, further tend to break up the fuel mixture while, due to the yieldability of the spacer, said spacer will function to cushion the screens in their vibratory movement and thus relieve the screens of the strain which would otherwise bepresent so that fracture or premature breaking of the screens, such as would occur if the screens were rigidlymounted at their margins, will be eliminated.l rThe Adurability of the device will thus be proportionately prolonged. l' accordingly provide a particularly efficient device for the purpose set forth and, as will now be seen, a device which may be readily employed in connection with practically any conventional make of internal combustion engine.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is: A

An atomizingv gasket for internal combustion engines including a sheath plate shaped to conform to the shape of the confronting flanges of an engine carbureter and intake manifold and formed at its outer edge with a channel having an inwardly directed overhanging flange, companion screens' of identical shape conforming to the shape of said plate and fitting in said channel, a spacer shaped like said screens and disposed between the margins thereof, and a second sheath plateconforming to the shape of said first mentioned plate and fitting in said channel secured by said flange, the channel forming a continuous Wall protecting the edges of the screens and said spacer and housing said edges to prevent the entrance of dirt therebetween. Y

- In testimony whereof ll affix my signature.

' ,GEORGE BAILEY, JR. '[L.s.] 

